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Furyondy: Watercolor & Ink

Map I made for my D&D game. Watercolor and ink on 9x12 sketchbook paper. The only regret I have is that I didn't use a lettering guide, but I was trying to ink in very tiny letters and it would have taken twice as long. I got impatient. This was a new type of watercolor for me, so I was still getting used to how the color flowed.

I'm always jealous of those who can do watercolor cuz mine always looks like a giant blob. Very cool.

If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)